Lunch At Oglevee's

Here's a bit of a panoramic view from Quentin and Tiffany's driveway.

They live in a cute little village about 20 minutes from Ramstein (the main base, which is five minutes from our hotel). See the chickens?  All I could think of when I saw them was finding myself a farmer and learning the German phrase for "Would you sell me some of your eggs?" so I can get me and my girls some TRULY farm fresh eggs! ;o)

We would NEVER have gotten there if it was for the GPS that we have with our rental car.  We did get to drive on the autobahn, which was pretty exciting.  

(I have to insert an aside here:  for those like me who don't know, "the autobahn" is a misnomer.  I always thought "the autobahn" was some crazy highway in Germany where all the crazy people who like to drive fast went because there was no speed limit and it was flat and straight or something.  The autobahns are basically the Germany national highway system.  They call it the motorway.  And while we're talking about German driving... I've noticed they have a lot more rotaries/traffic circles and a lot less traffic lights.  Interesting tidbit!) 

Jesse says it well... no matter where you drive around here, you feel like you're in a park or something.  It's cool.  Everything is so pretty... and even when you're driving "faster", it seems like the pace is slower around here.  The roads are narrow, but people seem to be good drivers, so it doesn't make me too nervous (c.f. Mississippi drivers!) ;o) 

The top two floors of the middle building are theirs.  It's a really cute apartment.  I'm actually a little jealous, which is silly, since I haven't even had a chance to LOOK at other apartments!  I love the views they have... all the windows are huge and look out over the village (in the front) or the woody backyard.  Being in their house made me SO EXCITED to start looking for a place of our own!  

Mila taught LJ how that it can be fun to sit still for five seconds to watch Monster's Inc. when you're sleepy and grouchy ;o)

They get along well.  Well... as well as two toddlers would typically get along ;o)

At least they help me rock the baby!

So we got a load of laundry done!  And we also got to hang out with the O's and get even more helpful information from them.  We drove about ten minutes down the road to check out the neighborhood of the apartment we like... it's still available so we're going to try to go see it ASAP! 

Jesse has "in-processing" tomorrow.  He'll be gone from about 7-4.  Not bad at all! ;o)  That will last two days or so and he'll be getting lots of info, so that'll be good!  I didn't have a chance to explore our neighborhood, yet, but that's on tomorrow's to-do list now.  Gotta do something to keep me busy!  I'm not used to having a hubs who works for a living ;o)